On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 03:47:58PM -0700, Darren O. Benham wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 08:29:03AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > For other ballots, I would be; for this one, I didn't find any discussion > > necessary. I can't see why all discussion of a ballot must occur on the > > debian-vote list. Most of these things being on debian-devel, and could > > remain > > there. > > There is no reason. Howerver, much of the discussion spins off of the > proposals and results and such so the discussion tends to remain on -vote. > The only argument I can see for -vote being a discussion list is volume. > There *could* be people who want to participate in the dicussions who can't > handle the volume of -devel (for a variety of reasons, one that I consider > valid is the cost of d/l the mail for people how pay either by the byte or > by the minute). > > I would object to any rule that discussion *must* be on -vote, but I would > also object to any rule that dicussion *must not* be on -vote.
I'll throw in two cents for people who don't have the time to read through debian-devel. I manage to keep abreast of what is going on without that, and I still consider myself an active and interested member of Debian; discussions of issues for which there will be an actual vote are considerably more interesting to me than a lot of the random chatter on -devel. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
